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Force Music app to sort with prefixes (“The”, “A”, “An”, etc.)

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Back in the ol'days In iTunes package, there was a file called SortPrefixes.plist in localisation folders containing several sort prefixes (“The”, “A”, “An”, etc.). Removing them in this file was making iTunes to auto-sort everything including these prefixes (_The Chemical Brothers_ was listed at T and not C). (I have a _lot_ of music files and I don't want to fix this by adding a _Sort Artist_ to each of them.) In the new Music app, there is no such file in Localisation folders, but I've just found a similar one in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AMPLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/XX.lproj/SortPrefixes.strings, containing the same samples of prefixes. Since AMPLibraryAgent is managing libraries for Music.app and TV.app, I believe I might be on the right track and I'm tempted to clear them. But these files are stored in /System/Library/ so I don't want to mess with the system: does it sound quite safe? (It [doesn't look like](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22AMPLibrary.framework%22%20%22SortPrefixes.strings%22) a known trick yet.)
Asked by Joan (259 rep)
Jul 15, 2022, 10:48 AM
Last activity: Dec 26, 2023, 04:07 PM